Choose Your Own Adventure Prewriting Lesson 5: Submitting

How to get a word count for Power Point

It is hard to get an accurate word count for PowerPoint. A quick search of the Internet shows that the

suggested method of selecting the file's properties and then looking in details is inaccurate. However, since I asked for a minimum of 1000 words for the presentation and I wanted it ran through turnitin.com, I wanted to make sure I could get the word count receipt.

Students need only convert the PPT to PDF and then submit the PDF to turnitin.com.* It will check the originality and count every word. Students turn in the receipt and the actual presentation to Edmodo.

*I checked turnitin.com with a simple submission of the PowerPoint presentation without it being converted to PDF and it reflected the same word count found when using the properties feature.

Example from PPT using word count the properties>details feature vs. converting to PDF and using turnitin.com: 

Word count using properties: 50

Word count using PDF version on Turnitin.com: 1,728